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Hi all, |
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We currently have both tcsh and csh in the tree. For those who don't |
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know what they are: they are shells. tcsh is the more sophisticated |
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little brother of csh. Their relationship is roughly comparable to the |
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relationshop between bash and sh shells. |
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Like bash and sh, tcsh is able to replace csh as it is compatible with |
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it, hence most distributions install tcsh and a symlink csh -> tcsh |
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these days. |
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The tcsh ebuild used to create this symlink for csh, but due to a |
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mistake that I made it doesn't anymore now. csh used to block on tcsh |
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which more or less meant that you had to choose for one or the other. |
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Problem here is that creating a conditional symlink for csh -> tcsh is a |
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bit dirty, and leaves the user with a system that has no csh in case the |
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csh is unmerged after tcsh was installed. |
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It appears that there are a few packages that depend on one of the shells. |
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For csh: |
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* media-gfx/maya |
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* sci-chemistry/namd |
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* sci-chemistry/sparky |
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For tcsh: |
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* media-gfx/maya |
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media-gfx/radiance |
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net-analyzer/sara |
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sci-biology/ncbi-tools |
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sci-chemistry/gamess |
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sci-chemistry/gromacs |
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* sci-chemistry/namd |
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sci-chemistry/nmrpipe |
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* sci-chemistry/sparky |
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x86 dev-lang/gnat |
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All packages that depend on csh also depend on tcsh (or relation). |
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Because csh is rather old and tcsh can be used as replacement, I would |
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like to have csh removed from the tree, then have tcsh always providing |
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the symlink csh -> tcsh. The situation is a bit the same as Gentoo not |
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providing an ebuild for sh, and bash just installing a symlink for |
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sh -> bash. |
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Are there any objections to removing csh from the tree? If there are no |
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problems with csh removal before Feb 1st 2006, then I will starting from |
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that date work on getting csh removed by masking it, blocking tcsh and |
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csh, and request for updates of the packages that depend on csh. |
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-- |
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Fabian Groffen |
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